4. No, I don't think AI is going to replace artists, it's not good enough, sure its fun to play with but there's no way, it doesn't actually understand what you're telling it. (See: The scraps thing I made with errors and bad outcomes)
5. The AI I use is Stable Diffusion, the models I use are Waifu, Yiffy, Novel AI/animefull-final-pruned, and the pony one, though I've not posted any of my pony results because I've not played with it that much haha.
6. For those curious about settings: I have no idea, I just usually throw it on around 20-30 steps with a CFG scale of like 7-13 depending on the image.
7: I am running this on a 3GB 1060. . . don't ask me how, i'm really not sure how I've managed to make this work considering I'm about 1 GB short of the minimum (Even with the low vram setting lmao)
8: Because others have talked about it: I don't really do requests with the AI, I don't want to be 'that guy', some have suggested commissions but again I don't really want to get into that kinda thing, I'd feel like an ass considering I can just put in the prompt and produce something in 5 minutes that it would take a human artist like. . . multiple hours or days to make. That said, I am hard up on money so, everyone has a price lmao. (Thats 50% a joke and 50% serious.)
I hope this has answered any commonly asked questions about the AI. . . And my intentions with it and stuff.